Portable bag-holder.



J. CUPPLES.

PORTABLE BAG HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED APR.2, 1914.

Patented Aug. 18, 191% THE NORRIS PETERS ca. PHOTOYLITHO, WASHINGTON. D. C

JOHN CUEYLES, OF BAYONNE, NEW JERSEY.

. IPORTABLE BAG-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 18, Tara.

Application filed April 2, 1914. Serial No. 829,010.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN GUrrLns, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Bayonne city, Hudson county, New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Portable Bag-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, an exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in bag holders such as are used to hold the mouth of a bag open to enable the bag to be conveniently filled.

The object of my invention is to produce a very simple and inexpensive device which can be moved conveniently from place to place, which provides a support for holding empty bags prior to use in filling, and which will hold a bag with its mouth opened so that the latter can be very easily filled.

A further object of my invention is to provide a light yielding frame ing the bag,which frame is resiliently supported so that as the bag is filled, the frame and bag will drop and prevent any sudden shock from tearing the bag.

A further object of my invention is to make the whole device easily portable, so that if desired it can be pushed from point to point and conveniently placed on a scale so that the bag and contents can be weighed when filled.

Another object of my invention is to make the structure simple, and leave the parts opposite the bag open so that the bag can be conveniently filled, and in general to produce a cheap, simple and eflicient bag holder of the class described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in the view.

The drawing is a perspective view of the bag holder showing my improvements, with a bag in position in the holder, the bag being shown in dotted lines.

In carrying out my invention 1 make a cheap, strong and simple supporting frame comprising standards 10, which are preferably of tubing, and which merge at their lower ends into branching legs 11, while their upper ends connect by suitable joints 13 and 15 with a top rail or bar it, which it will be noticed projects at one end beyond the standards, forming a convenient Support over which empty bags may be thrown. From this point they can be confor supportveniently reached and placed in position in the bag holder. The connection between the standards 10 and the legs 11 can be made by suitable unions 16, and the legs at the bottom have casters or trucks 1'? to enable the whole device to be easily moved from point to point. Mounted on the standards 10 so. as to have a vertical movement, is a light framework having eyes 18 sliding on the standards, these being connected by a cross-bar 19 which is preferably integral with the eyes, and cross arms 21 extend at right angles to the bar 19, these being connected in any suitable way with the crossbar, but as shown they are doubled over as shown at 20 and bent around the cross-bar 19. At their outer ends the arms 21 are bent upward and lnward, and then down ward, forming coils 21 which have a spring action, and the lower ends of the arms merge into hooks 21 which extend outward so that the bag can be quickly and conveniently fastened upon the hooks, which are placed within the bag and hook outward through the material of the bag, as shown clearly in the drawing. This supports the bag at four points so as to give it a large square opening at the top, and it will be noticed that the space between the arms 21 is left open so that the bag can be conveniently filled from either side of the apparatus.

Beneath the eyes 18 are springs 22 which are coiled around the standards 10, and which thus support the bag holding frame comprising the parts 19 and 21 so that as the bag is filled it will press downward on the springs 22, and thus sudden shocks are prevented and the bag does not tear.

It will be understood of course that the particular construction of the bag holding frame above referred to can be changed without departing from the principle of the invention, but it is important that the frame be arranged to slide on the standards or supports 10, and that it have the spring hooks 21 supported in the manner described.

It will be seen that the structure shown is of the simplest nature, that it is very inexpensive to make, very -convenient to use, and that it holds the bag securely yet safely, and in a manner to be easily filled. After the bag 23 is filled, it is simply lifted ed the hooks, and it will be noticed that the hooks can be bent inward to facilitate this operation, and yet that the tendency is to push outward against the bag under the impulse of the spring coils 21 so that the 'ba'g is bag support, and a skeleton bag holdingframe resiliently supported to slide on the standards, said frame having laterally ex tending arms arranged in pairs spaced apart from each other, and formed at their outer ends into coils having depending bag engaging hooks connected therewith.

2. A bag holder comprising supporting standards spaced apart from each other, a top bar connecting the standards and projecting beyond one of them forming a support, and a resilient bag holding frame mounted to slide on the standards, said frame having on opposite sides depending hooks spaced apart from each other, thereby leaving the bag holding frame open at the sides to provide access to a bag supported on the hooks.

1 the ends to slide on the standards,

3.- A bag holder comprising supporting st-andards spaced apart from each other and suitably connected together to form a frame, and a skeleton bag-holding frame resiliently supported to slide on the standards, said frame comprising a cross-bar having eyes at and extending arms connected with the cross-bars and projecting from opposite sides thereof in pairs, each arm having a coil formed at its outer end and a depending bag engaging hook connected with the coil;

4:. A bag holder comprising supporting standards spaced apart from each other and suitably connected together, and a bag holding frame resiliently supported to slide on the standards, said frame having laterally extending arms spaced apart from each other, and terminating at their outer ends in coils having bag engaging hooks connected therewith.

' JOHN CUPPLES.

Witnesses:

JAMES KNIGHT,

ROBERT WALLACE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

